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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30

! ssasagr' 81
market for products: Undertone in l-rd In
| dicated weakness, and prices further declined
| sake per leo lbs. July started at S6 -, sold
! down to s. 81, and closed al Sc 311I 26 a. Re
ports of yellow fever and that the losses by the
| stock yards fire would not be "a large as an
ticipatsd, had a depressing effect on ribs
| July opened at 81 40, declined to 81 So, and
closed at 81 40. Leading futures closed as fol
lows: Wheat-June 69ssc; July csc; August
PIC; september 741Sc. Commune 353lc July
56aCi August Sic; September 39I4c. Mess
pork-June $50 - Lard-June S. SIX; July
Sc 3I1s: August S. so; September s. 60 Short
ribs-June s. 40; July 81 40; August s. SO; Sep
TENDER 81 50. Cash quotations were: Flour
steady and prices firm; better feeling exists.
No. spring wheat G95a G69z5c; No. 3 spr ng
wheat Csc; No, 3 red, 73C. No.. 2 corn $3.50.
Mess pork. per barrel, S2l so. Lard-per lOl
lbs. So S5G6 37Il Short ribs sides, lcose 81 50
al 37l5; dry sailed shoulders, boxed s. 4OG
D 80; short clear sides, boxed 81 sOG7 50.
ST. LOUIS MO. June 9-FIour-Quiet
and easv; w s. 2Oa2 %; family. 81 7O02 So;
choice, So lOaS %. Wheat dull and weak at
opening, but during the whole session was
not &c decline or &c advance above
Yesterday; No. red cash 754fci June a;
1873 GI4@c, closing at 74c; September
751s6755sc, closing at 1850; october 771sC.
Corn Lower, owing to good weather; cash SIC
Jdly 3S55c; August3i%C; September 3518 abs C.,
changed; cash 2s%SSSIc; June CSC;
August 24}aC. Cornmeal active st So 90
Wnlsky STEADY AT ~ 10. Gr0Yl5lOnB Gull. HOrK
irregular; new SIS 90 Lard So l2k, Dry salt
meats Boxed shoulders s. 67J5: long clears
81 37hG1 50; clear ribs 81 co. short clear 81 81.
Bacon-BoXed shoulders Sc 0066 p; long clears
and clear ribs IS 35GS 40; short clears So S71I0
co. Hams steady at Sll 0OG14 co. Afternoon
board-Wheat steady; June 74c; July 73-sC;
August i4C: September 755Sc. Q, IN easy; July
331c; August 5i55c. Oats nominal.
NEW YOEK, June Coffee--Spot fair, Rio
dull,S 50GIT 10; options lower and moderately
active. Sales, 80 $50 bsgs. June sis So July SD 40
6l5 50; August, Sl5 SOGl5 90; September, Sl6 0OS
J6 Is; October SIC l06l6 30; NOvem Der, SIG -
ale 90; December, S 256l6 40; January SIC -
alG 40; February, SIC S56i6 IS; March, SIC 3jo
is %; April, SIG 35dIG ~. sugar steady and more
active; MusCovados, 7-16c; English island
sc; st. CroiX 47S04 l6c; Molasses sugar
5-IGc; redned quiet; barely steady at
4hc; standard A, Il l6c; cut loaf and
crushed. 1IeG6J5c; powdered, sac 1-l6,; cut
sc. Molasses, duh and weak; 30 test, 1890.
Lard-W estern steam, spot 81 10; July Sc 75G
& IS; Angus Sc g; september Sc 95a6 81; DC
tober s. 0l07 o.; Rovemter So 9Sd6 81; city
steam IS 80,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
Galveston.

GALVESTON, Ten, June 29.-Cotton-Spot
closed quiet and unchanged.
Ordinary, Il Ice; good ordinary 9 Z Ice
low middling 10 1-l6c; middlIng, 10 7-16c: good
middling. 10 Lie mlddling fair II ll.l6c.
Gross receipts, 20,
Sales, 4S4
Exports, none.
Shipments coastwise, none.
Rail shipments, none.
Stock 4313 bales
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
Daily Review.

UALEIIE UFFIJEI Z
FORT WORTH, Ten, June %, 1857.
Trade was on an immense boom in re-
tail lines to-day and heavy with whole
salers.
Coffee shows flrmness, and dealers be-
lieye it Will remain at present figures.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
Bolton.
Special to the Gazette.


BELToN; TEX June 29.-The cases of
the State vs.. R. McChinn for murder and
Ed Jackson for assault with intent to kill,
were called for trial this morning and
both continued by the state.
a Young Mems Christian Association
was organized last night with twenty-five
members.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
Sales lS,lOO bales.
New York,

NEW YORK, June l9 -Cotton-Spot closed
firm and unchanged.
Sales 90 bales.
Stock les 64i bales.
Ordinary, SEC; good ordinary, CSC; low
middlIng 10 9-I6C: middling, 10 Is Ice: good
middling II 3-l6c; mddling fair. ii l3 Ice
Futures opened easy, closed steady and up
Toll points on July, August and September;
down l UOint on other months.
Sales 81 200 bales
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL, June 29.-Cot'on-spot closed
steady and in fair demand; quotations I'M
changed.
Ordinary I6I; good ordinary SD; low
middllng SD; middling uplands 525 ID middling
Orleans sgd.
90; American 500.
sutures open quiet but steady snd closed
the same, point higher on some months and
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
FINANCIAL.

ENGLISH COESoLs. -
LONDON, June %. Consols closed at 1Of ZIG
for money; silver 44l4d.
MONEY.
NEW YORK, June 29.-Money on call loaned
at 3Gl2 per cent last loan at 3per cent. closed
offered at per cent Prime mercantile paper
at sac per cent. sterling exchange dull but
steady at 81 S24 for sixty day bills and siS3k for
demand.
STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, June 29-Stocks and bonds
closed at the following prices bid:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
ON CHANGE.
spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures from
One TO Eleven Points Higher.
Money Market Easy.

wheat Opsned Weak, Gathered Strength
and Closed at an Advance-Live Stock
Transactions Brisk.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-30
Tho Coffee Market,

GALVESTON, TEX, June 2g- Coffee
quiet Good ordinary p 4 62lzc; fair 226
22l4c; prime 221Ic; choice nc; peaberry 24c
and old government Java 29c.s
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
THE TEXAS rNvEsrIoATIoN.

The Republican Party Going Rack to the
Old Days When the South Was But So
Much Material for Campaign Th6n.
der"
There is an ancient fish-like flavor in
the announcement that a sub-commit-
tee of the Senate is investigating q tale
of outrage in Texas Measured by the
calendar it is not so long since an in
veshgatiOn of this kind formed soRe Of
the relaxations of every session of Con-
gress. The result was never any thing
practical. The most that was achieved
was a more or less picturesque exhibi-
ton of Southern manners and customs
and the manufacture of campaign
thunder
1t is a proof how fast the world
moves that the present investigation
should have so antiquated an air. It
may be proof also how slowly the
Senate moves that the majority of it's
members should imagine that there is
any public or party purpose now To be-
achieved by an investigation of this
sort. Senator Hoar by some mischance
does not figure on the committee,
where his zeal and his simple faith that
a great work was to be accomplished
by the investigation would make him
invaluable as a survival and reminder
of by-gone state of things. His place
is taken by the junior. now soon to be-
come the senior. Senetor from New
York. Mr.. Evarts is bS no means so
familiar an object as Mr.. Hoar in tho
attitude of brandishing the torch that
is to fire the Northern heart. But then
Mr.. Evarts's political sagaeity impels
him to place himself boldly on the
safe side of an issue of some
kind, and there are SO few issues
about which he can be reasonably GER
tain which the safe side is. He has
upon different occasions planted HIM
self firmly on both sides of the great
lard-cheese and suet-butter Issue,
though one of these conmittals was
professional and perhaps does not
count. Upon silver and Civil-Serv1ce
reform and other topics of current in
terest upon which men differ, he has
avoided disfavor by maintaining
from the proposition that outrages are
outrageous. Mr. Evarts may shed the
last word of his vocabulary in defense
of that proposition without running
the least risk, and it is to be expected
that the subject matter of this invcsti-
CATION will afford congenial theme
for the eloquence so often Distracted
by consideration of the uncertainty
of human affairs.-M J. Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
The RIaineiess Banquet.

1t was big blunder the Republican
managers made in announcing that
Blaine would be present ut the late
banquet under the auspices of Colonel
Atkinson's club. They knew, Of
course, that he would not come; anil
there was, therefore, kind Of false
pretense in announcing him and in
ducing the faithful to squander their
hard-earned two-dollar bills in vain eX-
pectation. But worse than the false
pretense was the blunder. 1t turned
what otherwise might have been very
tidy feast into cold and lifelcss thing.
Men who would have been very well
pleased under ordinary circumstances
to hear Senators Hawley. of Connect
icut, and Palmer, of this State, and
who would, when sufficiently ''re-
freshed, =" have tolerated even Congress-
man Boutelle, found the entertainment
stale, fiat. and Improbable, because
they contrasted it with the might have
been.
The blunder would have been less
serious if the managers had BEEN play
ing for the gate-money, so to speak.
They undoubtedly sold more tickets
than they would if Blaine. had net been
down in the hills. But it was not
money they were after. They wanted
enough of that to pay expenses, OF
course, but chiefly they were after
votes. And it is as voters that tho
guests have been injured. 1t is rs vOt-
ers that thay will resent the deceit and
delusion to which they have been sub
jected.
1t is useless, perhaps, to say to the
managers of the z. o. p. that it pgya
to be honest. But it does.-DetroH
Free Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
NEW YORK GIRLS.
Beautiful Girls Who Fade Early in Conse-
quence of Their Rapid Pace.

queuce of Their Rapid Pace.
A New York girl begins to fade at
twenty-five. From fifteen to seventeen
she is occasionally wonderfully lovely.
She has the frail, fine beauty of tea
rose-the highly-finished beauty which
is only seen in great cities, and which
is destroyed by the same atmosphere
that gave it birth. One season of dane
ing. gaslight and late hours blights the
tea-rose. Bnt she makes up for its loss
by her brightness and her clothes. She
is Justly renowned for the most stylish
manners and the best-made dresses of
any woman in America A stylish
manner does not of necessity mean the
best manner, but the manner which is
most fashionable atthe moment. There
are fashions in manners as there are in
clothes, and these the New York girl is
sharp as a needle at seeing, and clever
as a star actress at adopting. Some
years ago that ugly fashion came in for
excitable manners, when the girls
talked so fast and gasped so you felt as
il the whole female portion of the
town spent lbs Ife in running to catch
trains. In one week they all broke out
in it. Not girl who was anybody re-
tanned her old form of address. Since
then the English manner has come in.
The use of the broad "a" fell on them
like pestilence. Not an ga was left
to pursue the even tenor of its way un:
molested. The word '.lady" was pro-
nounced bad form, and woman" sub
stituted; gentlemen friends" was
boycotted, and linen that I know"
took its place. In prematurely short
time the change was effected. and one
could not but believe that it was the
work of years. Now the languid man
ner is chic. The girls who gasped and
nearly fell into spasms four years ago
are half asleep to-day You would
not believe they were the same :rea-
lures. The quick turns of the head.
the rapid gestures of the hand. all. all
are gone into the limbo of the past,
and a drowsy. magnificent langInr
reigns in their stead---Cor. San Fraf-
cisco ArgoRaut-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
The Principle Conceded.

The interesting feature of the law for
counting the electoral vote is the con-
cession of the principle for which the
Democracy contended in 1876 and
which the Republican party leaders
denied. Under the law as now
fixed there is no possibility of the
President of the Senate claiming,
as Senator Ferry did, to be a bigger
man than both Houses of Congress and
all the State governments combined.
The two houses meet in joint conven-
ton and the President of the Senate
presides- But he has no other duty or
function but to open the returns and
announce them. The two houses do
the passing upon them. If there is
only one return from State, it is to be
counted. If there are two, that one
will be counted which is approved by
the highest judicial authority in the
State. If there is no such approval,
the return, with the Governors sigma
ture, is tn be counted; and, if the Gov
ernor's authority is questioned, the
vote will be rejected unless both houses
separately agree to count it.-Detroit
Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
Not At All Tentative"

An illustration of the progress of the
principle of Civil-Service reform is to
be found in the action of the Ho6ise
Committee of Reform in the Civil-Serv-
ice, which reported favorably n bill
providing for the increase of the sala-
ries of the Civil-Service Commission
ers. At present the Commissioners re-
ceive a salary of $500 year each.
The bill would increase their sal
aries to $1,000. Some of the commaks
of the committee in reporting
tho bill are of interest The committee
says that when the Civil-Service act
was passed it was regarded merely as
tentative, and it was believed that the
Commissioners would not have very
much to do. Now, however, the COM
mission has become one of the institu-
tons of the country, and, the commit
tee urges, it is important that the best
talent should be placed at the COM
manI OF, the President. Under the
present salaries, as is we'll known, men
who are conspicuously desirable for
membership in the commission could
only accept the office at pecuniary
sacrifice.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
YELLOW JACK.


tie Introduction OF yellow fever into an English
seaport town. as told in the Pau 4dH Gdzsffe.
a ship, all OF whose crew had died OF yellow
fever, steered straight into port, bearing its
-dead-and thus communicated the fever to q
large proportion OF the inhabitants of the town.
Down below the sea-line dipt the summer sun.
Gladly earth ana ocean saw the tyrant die;
From the fort alive the harbor doomed the
evening gun,
And the gulls rose screaming from the elin on
high. ~
Pier, parade and terrace famed with colors
gay,
Every ship in harbor with festal flags was
dreSt,
FOR tn. crowded seaport town kept holiday.
And g'as fam. to look her merriest and her
best.
Every eye went seward as the cannon spoke;
The echoes walked and answered and fell
asleep once more;
And sudden past the headland, thro' the cloud
of smoke
Came a gallant ship. full SAIL and straight for
shore.
Red against the sunset her towering canvas
ShOne,
Defiant at her mast head the pennon futtered
free;
Past the fort and toward the harbor silent she
Dip of flag nor sound of gun-no salute gave
she.
From the forts cmbrasure rang reminder loud.
Still the pennon huttered-stin no answer
came;
"'Lo, our flag inspltedr cried the watching
crowd.
''Give then SOLID shot, their insolenoe to
tame -
With answering prov the vessel onward sped.
And they hailed and shouted and reply was
none,
Right and left before her the pleasure barges
fed.
One she crushed and sank, but silent held
she on.
Shot man of wars boat swiftly from the pier.
Hailed her--ran alongside-got them no reply;
Up her side the crew went swarming with q
cheer,
'tNow wen teach them manners, know the
reason why"
Not soul to meet them, and they stared
aghast:
Empty was the deck-no helmsman at the
Only one dead sailor, lying huddled by the mast,
Grinned if defying their pistols and their
steel
Down the hatch they stumbled-back they
rushed amazed
For the crew and Captain were lying dead
below;
Heller, SHELTER DER the bulwark to their boat
again,
And back to shore in terror, hard as they could
row.
Quickly as they landed rumor went before,
Pier, parade and terrace emptied as they
came;
For the King of Terrors was steering for that
shore,
And they recognized his colors now and knew
his name.
Death, with his most dreaded henchman at his
side,
Death all fierce and furnished maddening to
be fed;
But his appetite was glutted when the summer
died,
And more than half the jewellers in that sea-
port town were dead.
Now the town has dwindled now the fort Is
mute;
But men still remember and ballad -mongers
sing,
How they challenged Death-grim Death-him-
self for a.Salute,
Aud how yellow Jack avenged the insult to
his king.
-Her0ertlIE. Clarke, in Youths Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
Governor Hill explains :the I'm

Governor Hill explains ;the un-
American spirit of Republication. In
this State, by tho methods pursued by
the Republican party, a large number
of voters are practically disfranehised.
and the minority makes the laws
In Connecticut the Republican Legis-
lature selected for Governor tho
minority Republican candidate, who
now holds the office. The injustice
prevails in New Hampshire, and
in Rhode Island the Republicans dig
franchise every foreign-bOrn Citizen
who is not "A freebooter. Nevada, with
population less than that of each OF
nineteen counties in this State, gives
the Republicans control of the next
United States Senate. 1t will be seen
from these examples that the methods
pursued by the Republican pnrty to
keep in power, are dramatically OPP
posed to the very spirit q American in-
stitutions.-AI6Gay argus.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
"LALAGE-JANE."
A Pathetic Story of Old Planta-
ton Life.

Lalage-Jane stood on the front steps,
and looked thoughtfully over the lawn.
The East India geese Kissed and wad-
died across the green space, and be-
yond the levee the river cleaned dull
copper-color in the murky air. Below
her, half hidden in the grass, lay
Jimmie trying to provoke the ''stingy
geese" to combat by throwing what he
,alled ''rocks" at them. Happy
Jimmie! he had nothing on his mind,
and Lalage-Jane had so much.
''But he's only a baby" she thought,
looking down at him with protecting
expression on her ugly little face.
''SisH' the boy called with sudden
shrillness: Reckon we came forty
eleven miles to-dayr'
That was what she was thinking
about. She did not know the distance
any better than he, for in all her seven
years she had never left the limits of
her fathers plantation until yesterday.
Nanny had walked them up early in
the morning, and had told them that
Mr.. Ainsworth was going to take them
home with him.
What for?" Lalage-J ane had asked.
lille girls oughtn't'er AK questions
bout what don't discern EN-" nanny
had answered. with dignity which
was curiously at variance with hands
that trembled so she could hardly tie
the ribbons of the child's sandals.
Lalage-Jane had seen Mr.. Ainsworth
once before. and she knew that he was
n minister, but what ministers were she
had only a vague idea. She had asked
her father, and he had said:
They are gentlemen who fatten
upon the fears of their fellow-men,
daughter"
1t had not given Lalage-Jane pleas
ant idea of Mr.. Ainsworth, and, as she
sat opposite him in the carriage, she
felt like Hop O. My Thumb going to the
Ogre's castle. On arriving there they
were delivered over to Mrs. Ainsworth.
who-to carry out the analogy still
farther-seemed to be a kind-hearted
"ersoE. very much after the fashion of
the Ogre's wife in the legend.
'.An' she looked scared, too, -
Lalage-Jane thought. '.H she kisses
Jimmie again, and says. Poor child.
I'm afraid he'll knock her. JUS hope
he won'tr'
But he did. The rest was very CON.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17

His arms were folded across hia
breast. and there was something terri
BILE in the utter immobility of the face
turned toward the shore. AS soon as
the boat had touched land, a murmur
ran through this group, faint at tlrst,
then swelling louder. until now a wom-
an. plucking- the man by the sleeve,
cried shrilly:
Look yonder. Jared! Bless de
Lawd! it's lille missy an Mars
Jeamesi''
The children heard the cry, ard
Jimmie sent back an answering shout
of recognition. Like a flash, Lalage-
Jane was running up the staging-at
the rjsa of being Knocked down by a
rolling barrel-and plunged headlong
into the group.
They clustered around her with
broken ordinations, and she was
gracious TO them all, but it was Jared
to whom she chung. tresrf
Missy" said the man hnarsely.
''Missy. den yo' amt forget yore poro
old Jared?'
'.Of course I member you, Jaredr'
the child replied. '.An' I'm so glad
you've come home. an you've brought
father, too, haven't you, Jared?"
The man shook his head. and some of
the women began to cry.
"Come, Jaredr' she cried, Juggling
at his hand. Come an find father,
an then we'll get off. Quick, Jared.
fore they start!''
Jared set his teeth, and loosened the
little impetuous hand from his; and the
first whistle blew.
''Oh, comet the child cried in an
agony of entreaty. Don't you hear
'em goin' to start? Quick, Jared
quick!"
Just then the second whistle sounded
and Lalage-Jane felt herself lifted up
and carried on shore. When the over
seer put her down, the boat had pushed
out from land, amid confused sound
of farewells from the hands in the
wagon to their old comrades on board,
who answered with wild lamentations;
but Jared stood like bronze statue of
despair.
He had followed the child with his
eyes until she was carried out of sight,
and now he turned his gaze once more
upon the dear and beautiful spot that
he saw for the last time. Except for
that shadowy thought--which he had
so fiercely crushed into oblivion-of a
country where palm trees outline them
selves upon burning reaches of sand
every memory of his life was interwov-
en- with it; and he was going from it.
There he had grown up, the compan-
ion of the dead man whom he had
loved with the fidelity of a dog; every
tree. every rod of ground was familiar
TO him, and MS heart grew sick within
him as he looked.
He had loved it as his home-he for
got he was slave. Meanwhile the dis
lance widened -pitilessly; and
the agony of the thought unsealed his
lips. Forgetful of the bystanders, he
stretched out his arms toward the
shore; and cried, in voice hoarse and
shaken: Far well. ole home-long far
WE'LL"
That peculiar CHASTITY hue, which is
the palor of brown skin, had come
over his face.
A moment more and they had round
ed the bend. Behind them there was
naught to be seen but the low. willow
lined banks, that stretched out and out
until they seemed to meet beneath the
blue sky.-Mdr9aretto WetheriI Ker-
nan, in N. o. Times Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
What is the meaning of Blaine's

~ nat is the meaning Oh Diaine
treatment, or rather ill-treatment OF
the Michigan Republicans? 0Tbey
claimed last fall that he would make
one or two of his speeches in Michigan,
but he came not. They advertised him
as one of the attractions ofsthe exhibi-
ton given under the auspices OF the
Michigan Club, but it turns out that he
would not be part of the show. Michi-
gan Republicans will soon begin to
think that the magnetic mans neglect
is a poor return for their loyalty, and
perhaps the next time he wants them
a little more than year hence-they
will not respond to his call. Mr.. Blaine
presumes too much upon the far-reach-
ing influence of his magnetsm.-1S~
tr0St Free PreSa
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17

Among the latest developments Oh
woman capacity in business is a Wom-
ans National Lecture Bureau, with its
headquarters at Chicago, managing for
women lecturers altogether. 1t is not
an inferior or unknown list of lecturers
either that it puts forth.